 Map showing the location of the islands in the Pacific Ocean (highlighted with red boxes) The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, consists of nine insular United States possessions. Palmyra Atoll is the only incorporated territory of the United States. Currently, none of the islands have any permanent residents. Most recently, the census of population of 1980 gives population figures for three of the islands: Johnston Atoll (327), Midway Atoll (453), and Wake Island (302). The following censuses of 1990 and 2000 only note that there was no indigenous population, which was also true for all previous censuses except that of 1940. The Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme attempted to settle Americans on those three islands beginning in 1935, but all three islands were evacuated in 1942 as a result of World War II. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. ...
An incorporated territory of the United States is a specific area under the jurisdiction of the United States, over which the United States Congress has determined that the United States Constitution is to be applied to the territorys local government and inhabitants in its entirety (e. ...
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The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. ...
The Sixteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of 7. ...
Howland Island Howland Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean at 0°48′N 176°38′W, about 3,100 km (1,675 nautical miles) southwest of Honolulu. ...
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The islands are grouped together entirely as a statistical convenience. They are not administered collectively, nor do they share a single cultural or political history beyond being currently uninhabited islands under the sovereignty of the United States.
They are collectively represented by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code UM. The individual islands have ISO 3166-2 numerical codes, see ISO 3166-2:UM. The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) ".um" has historically been assigned to the islands; however, the .um ccTLD was retired in January of 2007. [1] ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent areas. ...
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A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ...
.um is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States Minor Outlying Islands. ...
The term "United States Minor Outlying Islands" was introduced in 1986. From 1974 until 1986, five of the islands (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll and Kingman Reef) were grouped under the term US Miscellaneous Pacific Islands, with ISO 3166 code PU (the code of Midway Atoll was MI, and the code of Johnston Atoll JT). ISO 3166 is a three-part geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent areas, and the principal subdivisions thereof. ...
Airports ICAO (IATA) codes: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, develops the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. ...
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- PJON (JON) – Johnston Island Airport - Johnston Island
- PMDY (MDY) – Henderson Field (Naval Air Facility) – Sand Island
- PWAK (AWK) – Wake Island Airfield - Wake Island
- PLPA – Palmyra Airport – Palmyra Atoll - Cooper Island
- PBAR – Baker Island Airport
- PLUR – Jarvis Airport – Jarvis Island
- Kamakaiwi Field - Howland Island (1937 to about 1945)[2]
- Kingman Reef: lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii and American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937 and 1938 [1]
Henderson Field (IATA: MDY, ICAO: PMDY) is a public airport located on Sand Island in Midway Atoll, an unincorporated territory of the United States. ...
Ports Three of the islands are listed with ports in the World Port Index[2], with World Port Number: The World Port Index (PUB 150) contains a tabular listing of thousands of ports throughout the world, describing their location, characteristics, known facilities, and available services. ...
- 56325 JOHNSTON ATOLL - Johnston Atoll
- 56328 MIDWAY ISLAND - Midway Atoll
- 56330 WAKE ISLAND - Wake Island
- not listed WEST LAGOON - Palmyra Atoll
Baker Island, Howland Island and Jarvis Island have a small boat landing place only each. Kingman Reef and Navassa Island have offshore anchorage only.
Islands Table
| Atoll/Island | Island Area
km² | Lagoon
km² | Coordinates | NWR
established | date of
acquisition | | Northern Pacific Ocean, scattered isolated islands Portion of a Pacific atoll showing two islets on the ribbon or barrier reef separated by a deep pass between the ocean and the lagoon. ...
This mid bay barrier in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), has blocked what used to be a bay to form a lagoon. ...
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| | Wake Island1 | 7.4 | 6 | 19°18′N, 166°38′E | N/A | 1899-01-17 | | Johnston Atoll2 | 2.52 | 130 | 16°45′N, 169°31′W | N/A | 1859-09-06 | | Northern Pacific Ocean, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands The Hawaiian island chain. ...
| | Midway Atoll | 5.18 | 40 | 28°13′N, 177°22′W | 1998 | 1867-08-28 | | Central Pacific Ocean, Northern Line Islands Orthographic projection centred over Midway. ...
The Line Islands are a group of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean south of the Hawaiian Islands, eight of which belong to Kiribati, while three are United States territories that are grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands. ...
| | Kingman Reef | 0.01 | 76 | 6°24′N, 162°24′W | 2001-01-18 | 1860-02-08 | | Palmyra Atoll2 | 6.56 | 15 | 5°53′N, 162°05′W | 2001-01-18 | 1912-02-21 | | Central Pacific Ocean, Central Line Islands The Line Islands are a group of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean south of the Hawaiian Islands, eight of which belong to Kiribati, while three are United States territories that are grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands. ...
| | Jarvis Island | 4.45 | - | 0°22′S, 160°01′W | 1974 | 1856-10-28 | | Central Pacific Ocean, Northern Phoenix Islands The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls, plus two submerged coral reefs in the central Pacific Ocean, east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. ...
| | Baker Island | 1.24 | - | 0°12′N, 176°29′W | 1974 | 1856-10-28 | | Howland Island | 1.62 | - | 0°48′N, 176°37′W | 1974 | 1856-10-28 | | Caribbean Sea Map of Central America and the Caribbean The Caribbean Sea (pronounced or ) is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. ...
| | Navassa Island3 | 5.2 | - | 18°24′N, 75°01′W | 1999-09-30 | 1858-10-31 | | Bajo Nuevo Bank4 | 0.02 | 155 | 15°53′N, 78°38′W | N/A | 1869-11-22 | | Serranilla Bank4 | 0.02 | 1200 | 15°50′N, 79°50′W | N/A | 1879-09-08
1880-09-13 | | U.S. Minor Outlying Islands | 34.2 | 267 | | | | | 1claimed by the Marshall Islands | | 2previously claimed by Hawaii when independent. Palmyra was officially part of Hawaii until 1959. | | 3claimed by Haiti | 4These islands are disputed with Colombia, Jamaica, and possibly Honduras.
Their areas are not included in the totals.
Only one U.S. Government online resource [3] list these islands in the context of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, all others do not. | Bajo Nuevo Bank, also called the Petrel Islands, is located in the western United States and Jamaica. ...
Serranilla Bank is a western Caribbean island located about 210 miles north-northeast of Nicaragua. ...
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See also Map of islands and their locations in the Pacific Ocean The Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex is a group of unorganized, unincorporated - or in the case of Palmyra Atoll, incorporated - American Pacific Island territories managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the...
The United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands is an obsolete term used to collectively describe Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Atoll, all of them territories controlled by the United States by the Guano Islands Act in the Pacific Ocean. ...
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Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean at 0°13′N 176°31′W, about 3,100 km (1,675 nautical miles) southwest of Honolulu. ...
Howland Island Howland Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean at 0°48′N 176°38′W, about 3,100 km (1,675 nautical miles) southwest of Honolulu. ...
Jarvis Island (formerly also known as Bunker Island[1]) is an uninhabited 4. ...
Johnston Atoll is a 130 km² atoll in the North Pacific Ocean at 16°45′N 169°30′W, about one-third of the way from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands. ...
The flag of the US is used for Kingman Reef Kingman Reef Kingman Reef—NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image Kingman Reef is a one-square-kilometer tropical coral reef located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at 6°24...
Orthographic projection centred over Midway. ...
Navassa Island map from The World Factbook Navassa Island - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image Navassa Island (La Navase in French, Lanavaz in Haitian Kreyòl) is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. ...
Palmyra Atoll - Landsat Image N-03-05_2000 (1:50,000) Palmyra Atoll - Marplot Map (1:50,000) Orthographic projection over Palmyra Atoll Palmyra Atoll, is an incorporated atoll administered by the United States government. ...
Serranilla Bank is a western Caribbean island located about 210 miles north-northeast of Nicaragua. ...
USGS Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite image of Wake Island. ...
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